Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDINGWe must eat to live, and not live to eat.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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